Bootsy Collins Quotes

I got to be about 13 and everyone started playing guitars and being in rock bands. There was no place for me with my trumpet and I wasn't cool anymore. Although now if I played the trumpet it would be the coolest thing in the world.

I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

I wasn't, you know, Mr. Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing.

I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am wearing this'. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.

When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

When I was 17, I was always hanging out with the older kids, and a lot of times, the kids that graduated would come back and play pranks. I was a huge, huge, huge prankster.

Young people need to see that you can be a nerd and still be cool.

We know that listening to Black Veil Brides, wearing Black Veil Bride shirts, or being in Black Veil Brides isn't always the most popular thing in the world.

I was every mother's nightmare - I was a hair model from 14, and I started coming home with red, blue, green hair.

I got the name Lil Baby because I always hung around older dudes.

I loved being a troublemaker. At Santa Monica High, I would smoke on campus, go barefoot, anything.

We want people to know they shouldn't feel like social pariahs just because they want to dress differently or listen to rock n' roll.

We are all rebellious teenagers. Sometimes we grow out of it, and sometimes we don't.

I remember being really young - being 13 or 14 - when I first was really excited about punk rock as an idea, and I was like, 'Don't ever not be punk. Don't ever not be punk.' Telling that to myself, I guess it was like self-defense against the scary world around me.

I reckoned I could meet more girls being in a band than playing soccer.

When I was six years old, I was always playing with the 10-year-olds. When I was 10, I was always playing with the 14-year-olds.

I was never a nipper; I was so uncool. I was way too unfit to be a nipper.

Yes, my fashion sense is outrageous, but I am a rebel. I am young and still growing up.

Especially as a teenager, you were so fond of Schiaparelli because she was slightly extreme, rebellious, and iconoclastic as well. That appeals to teenagers!

I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn't fit in that box.

I didn't want to act like I'm too cool for school or anything like that.

For years, young adults have adopted extremely liberal world views in their attempts to be different, ultimately failing to see the irony that they've all become the same.

I've never massively minded not being cool.